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Booker Prize 2019 Longlist: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

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Next up for our Man Booker panel is Jeanette Winterson’s novel Frankissstein. Six of our panelists read this book. Check out what they thought.

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Booker Prize 2019: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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(UK/Nigeria)

Book 2 from the longlist rated by panellists Book Worm, Nicole, Susie, Tracy & Lisa

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Booker Prize 2019 Longlist: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

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(Mexico/Italy)

Book One – read and rated by panellists Book Worm, Anita, Nicole, Tracy, Lisa and Susie

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1001 Books July 2019 Round Up

This months winners and losers…

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Guilt by Amanda Robson

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Guilt by Amanda Robson
Published in: 2018
Reviewed by: Book Worm
Rating: [★★★★]

Whose killing who?

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Read Around the World: Lebanon

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July 2019 we visit Lebanon a country steeped in history and if you believe the hype blessed by God.

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The Longlist is here! The Longlist is here!

No total left field picks this year … Nicole’s strategy backfired and I’m completely gutted to see that On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous didn’t make the list.

Booker Prize 2019: the longlist

Margaret Atwood (Canada) – The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)

Kevin Barry (Ireland) – Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate Books)

Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria) – My Sister, The Serial Killer (Atlantic Books)

Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK) – Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press)

Bernardine Evaristo (UK) – Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton)

John Lanchester (UK) – The Wall (Faber & Faber)

Deborah Levy (UK) – The Man Who Saw Everything (Hamish Hamilton)

Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy) – Lost Children Archive (4th Estate)

Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) – An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown)

Max Porter (UK) – Lanny (Faber & Faber)

Salman Rushdie (UK/India) – Quichotte (Jonathan Cape)

Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey) – 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking)

Jeanette Winterson (UK) – Frankissstein (Jonathan Cape)

 

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Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli

Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
Published in: 2019
Reviewed by: Nicole
Rating: 5/5

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Ground Control to Major Tom

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Booker Prize 2019 Our Longlist Predictions

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The official longlist for this years Booker Prize (the name change is due to new sponsors Sir Michael Moritz and his wife rather than the Man group) is due to be announced on Wednesday so in the “readersroom” tradition of recent years we have assembled our shadow panel and put together our own predictions for the longlist.

Let the madness begin…

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On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong 
Published in: 2019
Reviewed by: Nicole
Rating: 5/5 10/10 20/20 …. (you get the point)

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